Senior Systems Engineer (Maritime Autonomy)

Location: Portchester, United Kingdom; hybrid working with three days onsite per week

Company

hirify.global delivers mission-critical defence technology across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains. The Portchester Maritime UK business develops integrated marine control systems, simulation products, and autonomous capabilities for warships, submarines, ports, harbours, and offshore energy providers.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering strategy and technical delivery of a complex maritime autonomy programme.
• Lead and mentor a small multidisciplinary engineering team across cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance.
• Define technical scope, delivery plans, resource requirements, and solutions with Programme and Project Managers.
• Support business development, including bid leadership, solution development, proposals, and cost estimation.
• Monitor technical progress, risks, opportunities, and issues, and provide programme reporting.
• Act as the primary customer interface for engineering matters and drive systems engineering throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in complex defence, maritime, aerospace, or highly regulated environments.
• Experience working within Defence programmes and applying Systems Engineering best practices.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including system context and boundaries, interfaces and interactions, system hierarchies and decomposition, and system partitioning and complexity management.
• Demonstrable experience in requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and management.
• Strong planning, communication, stakeholder management, and coordination skills.
• IBM DOORS proficiency is essential; experience with System Architect and/or IBM Rhapsody is advantageous.
• Experience leading technical delivery for bids, proposals, or capture activities.
• Conditional-offer candidates must have the right to work in the UK and meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information, including government security checks.

Nice to have

• Background in Software Engineering.
• Experience applying Model-Based Systems Engineering approaches and methodologies.
• Knowledge of MODAF and DoDAF architectural frameworks.
• Awareness of adjacent disciplines, including Safety Engineering, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Integrated Logistics Support, Verification and Validation, and Systems Integration.

Culture & Benefits

• 37.5-hour working week with a half-day finish on Friday.
• Hybrid working where possible, with three days onsite per week.
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with long service, with the option to buy or sell up to five days.
• Private medical insurance, pension contributions of up to 8%, life assurance, and group income protection.
• Additional optional benefits include dental and healthcare plans, gym membership, travel insurance, an electric car scheme, and wellbeing support.
• Professional membership reimbursement is available at the employer’s discretion.